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<B>MPlayer</B> --> MPlayer
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1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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5 <TITLE>Video - MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux</TITLE>
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13 <H3><A NAME="video">2.3.1 Video output devices</A></H3>
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16 <H4><A NAME="mtrr">2.3.1.1 Setting up MTRR</A></H4>
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18 <P>It is VERY recommended to check if the MTRR registers are set up properly,
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19 because they can give a big performance boost.</P>
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21 <P>Do a '<CODE>cat /proc/mtrr</CODE>':</P>
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24 --($:~)-- cat /proc/mtrr<BR>
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25 reg00: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=9<BR>
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26 reg01: base=0xd8000000 (3456MB), size= 128MB: write-combining, count=1</CODE></P>
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28 <P>It's right, shows my Matrox G400 with 16MB memory. I did this from
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29 XFree 4.x.x , which sets up MTRR registers automatically.</P>
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31 <P>If nothing worked, you have to do it manually. First, you have to find the
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32 base address. You have 3 ways to find it:</P>
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34 <UL>
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35 <LI>from X11 startup messages, for example:
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36 <P><CODE>(--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 4, Memory @ 0xd8000000, 0xd4000000<BR>
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37 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000</CODE></P></LI>
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38 <LI>from /proc/pci (use lspci -v command):
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40 <CODE>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc.: Unknown device 0525</CODE>
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41 <CODE>Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)</CODE>
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42 </P></LI>
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43 <LI>from mga_vid kernel driver messages (use <CODE>dmesg</CODE>):
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44 <P><CODE>mga_mem_base = d8000000</CODE></P></LI>
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47 <P>Then let's find the memory size. This is very easy, just convert video ram
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51 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>1 MB</TD><TD WIDTH="10%"></TD><TD>0x100000</TD></TR>
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56 <TR><TD></TD><TD>32 MB</TD><TD></TD><TD>0x2000000</TD></TR>
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60 <P>You know base address and memory size, let's setup MTRR registers!
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65 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;echo "base=0xd8000000 size=0x2000000 type=write-combining" &gt;| /proc/mtrr</CODE></P>
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69 stepping 0] doesn't support MTRR, but stepping 12's do ('<CODE>cat
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73 <H4><A NAME="xv">2.3.1.2 Xv</A></H4>
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78 the old, slow DirectShow DivX codec, which supports it everywhere), see the
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79 man page.</P>
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81 <P>In order to make this work, be sure to check the following:</P>
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84 <LI>You have to use XFree86 4.0.2 or newer (former versions don't have
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85 XVideo)</LI>
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89 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;(II) Loading extension XVideo</CODE></P>
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94 is always loaded, and doesn't mean that the <B>card's</B> XVideo support is
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96 </LI>
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97 <LI>Your card has Xv support under Linux. To check, try 'xvinfo', it is the
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98 part of the XFree86 distribution. It should display a long text, similar
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100 <PRE>
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101 X-Video Extension version 2.2
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106 operations supported: PutImage
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107 supported visuals:
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111 (...)
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112 Number of image formats: 7
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113 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
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114 guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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116 number of planes: 1
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117 type: YUV (packed)
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118 id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
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119 guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
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122 type: YUV (planar)
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123 (...etc...)
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124 </PRE>
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125 <P>It must support YUY2 packed, and YV12 planar pixel formats to be
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126 usable with MPlayer.</P>
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127 </LI>
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128 <LI>And finally, check if MPlayer was compiled with 'xv' support.
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129 ./configure prints this.</LI>
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130 </UL>
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133 <H5><A NAME="xv_3dfx">2.3.1.2.1 3dfx cards</A></H5>
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135 <P>Older 3dfx drivers were known to have problems with XVideo acceleration, it
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136 didn't support either YUY2 or YV12, and so. Verify that you have XFree86
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137 version 4.2.0 or greater, it works OK with YV12 and YUY2. Previous versions,
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138 including 4.1.0, <B>crash with YV12</B>. If you experience strange effects
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139 using -vo xv, try SDL (it has XVideo too) and see if it helps. Check the
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140 <A HREF="#sdl">SDL section</A> for details.</P>
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142 <P><B>OR</B>, try the NEW -vo tdfxfb driver! See the
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143 <A HREF="#tdfxfb">tdfxfb</A> section.</P>
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146 <H5><A NAME="xv_s3">2.3.1.2.2 S3 cards</A></H5>
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148 <P>S3 Savage3D's should work fine, but for Savage4, use XFree86 version 4.0.3
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149 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge.. there is
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150 xv support, but the card itself is very slow, so you better sell it.</P>
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152 <P><B>NOTE</B>: it's currently unclear which Savage models lack YV12 support,
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153 and convert by driver (slow). If you suspect your card, get a newer driver,
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154 or ask politely on the mplayer-users mailing list for an MMX/3DNow enabled
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155 driver.</P>
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158 <H5><A NAME="xv_nvidia">2.3.1.2.3 nVidia cards</A></H5>
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160 <P>nVidia isn't a very good choice under Linux (according to nVidia, this is
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169 <P>Riva128 cards don't have XVideo support even with the nVidia driver :(
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173 <H5><A NAME="xv_ati">2.3.1.2.4 ATI cards</A></H5>
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175 <UL>
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176 <LI>The <A HREF="http://gatos.sourceforge.net">GATOS driver</A> (which you
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177 should use, unless you have Rage128 or Radeon) has VSYNC enabled by
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179 refresh rate. If playing seems to be slow, try disabling VSYNC somehow, or
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180 set refresh rate to n*(fps of the movie) Hz.</LI>
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181 <LI>Radeon VE - currently only XFree86 CVS has driver for this card, version
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182 4.1.0 doesn't. And no TV out support. Of course with MPlayer you can
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183 happily get <B>accelerated</B> display, with or without <B>TV output</B>, and
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184 no libraries or X are needed. Read <A HREF="#vidix">Vidix</A> section.</LI>
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188 <H5><A NAME="xv_neomagic">2.3.1.2.5 NeoMagic cards</A></H5>
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190 <P>These cards can be found in many laptops. Unfortunately, the driver in
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191 X 4.2.0 can't do Xv, but we have a modified, Xv-capable driver for you.
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192 <A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/NeoMagic-driver/neomagic_drv.o.4.2.0.bz2">Download from here</A>.
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193 Driver provided by Stefan Seyfried.</P>
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195 <P>To allow playback of DVD sized content change your XF86Config like this:</P>
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197 <P>Section "Device"<BR>
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198 &nbsp; &nbsp; <I>[...]</I><BR>
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199 &nbsp; &nbsp; Driver "neomagic"<BR>
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200 &nbsp; &nbsp; <B>Option "OverlayMem" "829440"</B><BR>
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201 &nbsp; &nbsp; <I>[...]</I><BR>
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202 EndSection</P>
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205 <H5><A NAME="xv_trident">2.3.1.2.6 Trident cards</A></H5>
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207 <P>If you want to use xv with a trident card, provided that it doesn't work
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208 with 4.1.0, install XFree 4.2.0. 4.2.0 adds support for fullscreen xv
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209 support with the Cyberblade XP card.</P>
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212 <H4><A NAME="dga">2.3.1.3 DGA</A></H4>
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215 <H5><A NAME="dga_summary">2.3.1.3.1 Summary</A></H5>
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217 <P>This document tries to explain in some words what DGA is in general and what
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218 the DGA video output driver for MPlayer can do (and what it
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222 <H5><A NAME="dga_whatis">2.3.1.3.2 What is DGA</A></H5>
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224 <P>DGA is short for Direct Graphics Access and is a means for a program to
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225 bypass the X-Server and directly modifying the framebuffer memory.
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226 Technically spoken this happens by mapping the framebuffer memory into
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227 the memory range of your process. This is allowed by the kernel only
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228 if you have superuser privileges. You can get these either by logging in
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229 as root or by setting the SUID bit on the MPlayer executable (<B>not
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230 recommended</B>).</P>
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232 <P>There are two versions of DGA: DGA1 is used by XFree 3.x.x and DGA2 was
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235 <P>DGA1 provides only direct framebuffer access as described above. For
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236 switching the resolution of the video signal you have to rely on the
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237 XVidMode extension.</P>
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239 <P>DGA2 incorporates the features of XVidMode extension and also allows
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240 switching the depth of the display. So you may, although basically
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241 running a 32 bit depth X server, switch to a depth of 15 bits and vice
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244 <P>However DGA has some drawbacks. It seems it is somewhat dependent on the
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245 graphics chip you use and on the implementation of the X server's video
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246 driver that controls this chip. So it does not work on every system ...</P>
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249 <H5><A NAME="dga_installation">2.3.1.3.3 Installing DGA support for MPlayer</A></H5>
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251 <P>First make sure X loads the DGA extension, see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:</P>
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253 <P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA</CODE></P>
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255 <P>See, XFree86 4.0.x or greater is VERY RECOMMENDED! MPlayer's DGA
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256 driver is autodetected on ./configure, or you can force it with
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257 --enable-dga.</P>
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259 <P>If the driver couldn't switch to a smaller resolution, experiment with
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260 switches -vm (only with X 3.3.x), -fs, -bpp, -zoom to find a video mode that
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261 the movie fits in. There is no converter right now :(</P>
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263 <P>Become root. DGA needs root access to be able to write directly to video
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264 memory. If you want to run it as user, then install MPlayer SUID
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265 root:</P>
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267 <P><CODE>
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268 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chown root /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR>
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269 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chmod 750 /usr/local/bin/mplayer<BR>
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270 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mplayer</CODE></P>
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272 <P>Now it works as a simple user, too.</P>
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274 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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275 <B>Warning: security risk</B><BR>
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276 This is a <B>big</B> security risk! <B>Never</B> do this on a server or on
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277 a computer that can be accessed by other people because they can gain root
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278 privileges through SUID root MPlayer.
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281 <P>Now use the <CODE>-vo dga</CODE> option, and there you go (hope so :))!
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283 much faster.</P>
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286 <H5><A NAME="dga_resolution">2.3.1.3.4 Resolution switching</A></H5>
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288 <P>The DGA driver allows for switching the resolution of the output signal.
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289 This avoids the need for doing (slow) software scaling and at the same time
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290 provides a fullscreen image. Ideally it would switch to the exact resolution
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291 (except for honoring aspect ratio) of the video data, but the X server only
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292 allows switching to resolutions predefined in
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293 <CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config</CODE> (<CODE>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</CODE> for
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294 XFree 4.0.X respectively). Those are defined by so-called modelines and
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295 depend on the capabilities of your video hardware. The X server scans this
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296 config file on startup and disables the modelines not suitable for your
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297 hardware. You can find out which modes survive with the X11 log file. It can
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299 <CODE>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</CODE>.</P>
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301 <P>See appendix A for some sample modeline definitions.</P>
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304 <H5><A NAME="dga_mplayer">2.3.1.3.5 DGA &amp; MPlayer</A></H5>
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306 <P>DGA is used in two places with MPlayer: The SDL driver can be made to
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307 make use of it (-vo sdl:dga) and within the DGA driver (-vo dga). The above
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312 <H5><A NAME="dga_features">2.3.1.3.6 Features of the DGA driver</A></H5>
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314 <P>The DGA driver is invoked by specifying -vo dga at the command line.
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315 The default behavior is to switch to a resolution matching the original
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316 resolution of the video as close as possible. It deliberately ignores the
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317 -vm and -fs switches (enabling of video mode switching and fullscreen) -
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318 it always tries to cover as much area of your screen as possible by switching
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321 If you don't like the mode it chooses you may force it to choose the mode
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323 By providing the -v option, the DGA driver will print, among a lot of other
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326 Having DGA2 you may also force it to use a certain depth by using the -bpp
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328 whether these depths are natively supported or if a (possibly slow)
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329 conversion has to be done.</P>
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331 <P>If you should be lucky enough to have enough offscreen memory left to
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332 put a whole image there, the DGA driver will use doublebuffering, which
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333 results in much smoother movie replaying. It will tell you whether double-
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334 buffering is enabled or not.</P>
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336 <P>Doublebuffering means that the next frame of your video is being drawn in
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337 some offscreen memory while the current frame is being displayed. When the
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338 next frame is ready, the graphics chip is just told the location in memory
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339 of the new frame and simply fetches the data to be displayed from there.
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340 In the meantime the other buffer in memory will be filled again with new
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341 video data.</P>
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343 <P>Doublebuffering may be switched on by using the option -double and may be
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344 disabled with -nodouble. Current default option is to disable
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345 doublebuffering. When using the DGA driver, onscreen display (OSD) only
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346 works with doublebuffering enabled. However, enabling doublebuffering may
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347 result in a big speed penalty (on my K6-II+ 525 it used an additional 20% of
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348 CPU time!) depending on the implementation of DGA for your hardware.</P>
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351 <H5><A NAME="dga_speed">2.3.1.3.7 Speed issues</A></H5>
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353 <P>Generally spoken, DGA framebuffer access should be at least as fast as using
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354 the X11 driver with the additional benefit of getting a fullscreen image.
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355 The percentage speed values printed by MPlayer have to be interpreted
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356 with some care, as for example, with the X11 driver they do not include the
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357 time used by the X-Server needed for the actual drawing. Hook a terminal to a
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358 serial line of your box and start top to see what is really going on in your
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359 box...</P>
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360
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361 <P>Generally spoken, the speedup done by using DGA against 'normal' use of X11
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362 highly depends on your graphics card and how well the X-Server module for it
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363 is optimized.</P>
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364
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365 <P>If you have a slow system, better use 15 or 16bit depth since they require
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366 only half the memory bandwidth of a 32 bit display.</P>
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368 <P>Using a depth of 24bit is even a good idea if your card natively just
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369 supports 32 bit depth since it transfers 25% less data compared to the 32/32
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370 mode.</P>
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371
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372 <P>I've seen some AVI files already be replayed on a Pentium MMX 266. AMD K6-2
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373 CPUs might work at 400 MHZ and above.</P>
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376 <H5><A NAME="dga_bugs">2.3.1.3.8 Known bugs</A></H5>
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378 <P>Well, according to some developers of XFree, DGA is quite a beast. They
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379 tell you better not to use it. Its implementation is not always flawless
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380 with every chipset driver for XFree out there.</P>
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382 <UL>
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383 <LI>With XFree 4.0.3 and nv.o there is a bug resulting in strange
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384 colors.</LI>
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385 <LI>ATI driver requires to switch mode back more than once after finishing
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386 using of DGA.</LI>
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387 <LI>Some drivers simply fail to switch back to normal resolution (use
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388 Ctrl-Alt-Keypad +, - to switch back manually).</LI>
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389 <LI>Some drivers simply display strange colors.</LI>
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390 <LI>Some drivers lie about the amount of memory they map into the process's
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391 address space, thus vo_dga won't use doublebuffering (SIS?).</LI>
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392 <LI>some drivers seem to fail to report even a single valid mode. In this
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393 case the DGA driver will crash telling you about a nonsense mode of
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394 100000x100000 or the like ...</LI>
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395 <LI>OSD only works with doublebuffering enabled.</LI>
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396 </UL>
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399 <H5><A NAME="dga_future">2.3.1.3.9 Future work</A></H5>
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401 <UL>
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402 <LI>use of the new X11 render interface for OSD</LI>
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403 <LI>where is my TODO list ???? :-(((</LI>
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404 </UL>
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407 <H5><A NAME="dga_modelines">2.3.1.3.A Some modelines</A></H5>
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409 <PRE>
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410 Section "Modes"
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412 Modeline "800x600" 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
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414 Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
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415 Modeline "400x300" 20 400 416 480 528 300 301 303 314 Doublescan
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418 Modeline "320x240" 12.588 320 336 384 400 240 245 246 262 Doublescan
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419 EndSection
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420 </PRE>
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422 <P>These entries work fine with my Riva128 chip, using nv.o X server driver
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423 module.</P>
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426 <H5><A NAME="dga_bug_reports">2.3.1.3.B Bug Reports</A></H5>
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428 <P>If you experience troubles with the DGA driver please feel free to file
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429 a bug report to me (e-mail address below). Please start MPlayer with
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430 the -v option and include all lines in the bug report that start with
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431 vo_dga:</P>
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433 <P>Please do also include the version of X11 you are using, the graphics card
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434 and your CPU type. The X11 driver module (defined in XF86-Config) might
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435 also help. Thanks!</P>
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437 <P><I>Acki (acki@acki-netz.de, www.acki-netz.de)</I></P>
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440 <H4><A NAME="sdl">2.3.1.4 SDL</A></H4>
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442 <P>SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) is basically a unified video/audio
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443 interface. Programs that use it know only about SDL, and not about what video
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444 or audio driver does SDL actually use. For example a Doom port using SDL can
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445 run on svgalib, aalib, X, fbdev, and others, you only have to specify the
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446 (for example) video driver to use with the SDL_VIDEODRIVER environment
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447 variable. Well, in theory.</P>
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448
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449 <P>With MPlayer, we used its X11 driver's software scaler ability for
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450 cards/drivers that doesn't support XVideo, until we made our own (faster,
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451 nicer) software scaler. Also we used its aalib output, but now we have ours
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452 which is more comfortable. Its DGA mode was better than ours, until
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453 recently. Get it now? :)</P>
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454
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455 <P>It also helps with some buggy drivers/cards if the video is jerky
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456 (not slow system problem), or audio is lagging.</P>
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457
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458 <P>SDL video output supports displaying subtitles under the movie, on the (if
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459 present) black bar.</P>
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460
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461 <P><B>There are several command line switches for SDL:</B></P>
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462 <DL>
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463 <DT><CODE>-vo sdl:name</CODE></DT>
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464 <DD>specifies sdl video driver to use (i.e.. aalib, dga, x11)</DD>
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465
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466 <DT><CODE>-ao sdl:name</CODE></DT>
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467 <DD>specifies sdl audio driver to use (i.e. dsp, esd, arts)</DD>
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468
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469 <DT><CODE>-noxv</CODE></DT>
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470 <DD>disables XVideo hardware acceleration</DD>
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471
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472 <DT><CODE>-forcexv</CODE></DT>
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473 <DD>tries to force XVideo acceleration</DD>
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474 </DL>
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476 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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477 <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><B>SDL Keys:</B></P></TD></TR>
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478 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>F</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>toggles fullscreen/windowed mode</TD></TR>
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479 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>C</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>cycles available fullscreen modes</TD></TR>
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480 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>W/S</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>mappings for * and / (mixer control)</TD></TR>
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481 </TABLE>
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482
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483 <H4>Known bugs:</H4>
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484
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485 <UL>
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486 <LI>Keys pressed under sdl:aalib console driver repeat forever. (use -vo aa!)
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487 It's bug in SDL, I can't change it (tested with SDL 1.2.1).</LI>
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488 <LI>DO NOT USE SDL with GUI! It won't work as it should.</LI>
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489 </UL>
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490
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491
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492 <H4><A NAME="svgalib">2.3.1.5 SVGAlib</A></H4>
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493
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494 <H4>Installation</H4>
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495
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496 <P>You'll have to install svgalib and its development package in order for
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497 MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be forced),
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498 and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your card &amp;
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499 monitor.</P>
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500
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501 <H4>Notes</H4>
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502
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503 <P>Be sure not to use the -fs switch, since it toggles the usage of the software
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504 scaler, and it's slow. If you really need it, use the <CODE>-sws 4</CODE>
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505 option which will produce bad quality, but is somewhat faster.</P>
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506
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507 <H4>EGA (4bpp) support</H4>
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508
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509 <P>SVGAlib incorporates EGAlib, and MPlayer has the possibility to
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510 display any movie in 16 colors, thus usable in the following sets:</P>
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512 <UL>
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513 <LI>EGA card with EGA monitor: 320x200x4bpp, 640x200x4bpp, 640x350x4bpp</LI>
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514 <LI>EGA card with CGA monitor: 320x200x4bpp, 640x200x4bpp</LI>
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515 </UL>
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516
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517 <P>The bpp (bits per pixel) value must be set to 4 by hand:<BR>
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518 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-bpp 4</CODE><BR>
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519 The movie probably must be scaled down to fit in EGA mode:<BR>
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520 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-vop scale=640:350</CODE> or<BR>
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521 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-vop scale=320:200</CODE><BR>
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522 For that we need fast but bad quality scaling routine:<BR>
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523 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-sws 4</CODE><BR>
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524 Maybe automatic aspect correction has to be shut off:<BR>
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525 &nbsp;&nbsp;<CODE>-noaspect</CODE></P>
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526
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527
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528 <H4><A NAME="fbdev">2.3.1.6 Framebuffer output (FBdev)</A></H4>
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529
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530 <P>Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure .
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531 Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources
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532 (Documentation/fb/*) for more information.</P>
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533
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534 <P>If your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI
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535 cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?):
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536 Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display
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537 Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux. Use a DOS boot disk or
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538 whatever. And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))</P>
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539
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540 <P>The FBdev output takes some additional parameters above the others:</P>
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541
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542 <DL>
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543 <DT><CODE>-fb</CODE></DT>
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544 <DD>specify the framebuffer device to use (/dev/fb0)</DD>
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545
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546 <DT><CODE>-fbmode</CODE></DT>
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547 <DD>mode name to use (according to /etc/fb.modes)</DD>
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548
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549 <DT><CODE>-fbmodeconfig</CODE></DT>
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550 <DD>config file of modes (default /etc/fb.modes)</DD>
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551
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552 <DT><CODE>-monitor_hfreq</CODE></DT>
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553 <DT><CODE>-monitor_vfreq</CODE></DT>
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554 <DT><CODE>-monitor_dotclock</CODE></DT>
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555 <DD><STRONG>Important</STRONG> values, see <CODE>example.conf</CODE></DD>
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556 </DL>
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557
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558 <P>If you want to change to a specific mode, then use</P>
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559
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560 <P><CODE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;mplayer -vm -fbmode (NameOfMode) filename</CODE></P>
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561
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562 <UL>
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563 <LI><B>-vm</B> alone will choose the most suitable mode from /etc/fb.modes.
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564 Can be used together with -x and -y options too. The -flip option is
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565 supported only if the movie's pixel format matches the video mode's pixel
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566 format. Pay attention to the bpp value, fbdev driver tries to use the
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567 current, or if you specify the -bpp option, then that.</LI>
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568 <LI><B>-zoom</B> option isn't supported (software scaling is slow). -fs
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569 option isn't supported. You can't use 8bpp (or less) modes.</LI>
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570 <LI>you possibly want to turn the cursor off: <CODE>echo -e
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571 '\033[?25l'</CODE> or <CODE>setterm -cursor off</CODE><BR>
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572 and the screen saver: <CODE>setterm -blank 0</CODE><BR>
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573 To turn the cursor back on: <CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE>
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574 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE></LI>
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575 </UL>
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576
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577 <P>NOTE: FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer,
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578 and don't ask for it, since it's not an MPlayer limitation.</P>
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579
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580
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581 <H4><A NAME="mga_vid">2.3.1.7 Matrox framebuffer (mga_vid)</A></H4>
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582
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583 <P>This section is about the Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 BES (Back-End Scaler)
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584 support, the mga_vid kernel driver. It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and
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585 it has hardware VSYNC support with triple buffering. It works on both
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586 framebuffer console and under X.</P>
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587
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588 <P><B>WARNING</B>: on non-Linux systems, use <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A> for
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589 mga_vid!</P>
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590
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591 <P><B>Installation:</B></P>
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592 <OL>
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593 <LI>To use it, you first have to compile mga_vid.o:
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594 <P><CODE>cd drivers<BR>
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595 make</CODE></P></LI>
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596 <LI>Then create the <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> device:
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597 <P><CODE>mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0</CODE></P>
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598 <P>and load the driver with</P>
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599 <P><CODE>insmod mga_vid.o</CODE></P></LI>
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600 <LI>You should verify the memory size detection using the <CODE>dmesg</CODE>
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601 command. If it's bad, use the <CODE>mga_ram_size</CODE> option
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602 (<CODE>rmmod mga_vid</CODE> first), specify card's memory size in MB:
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603 <P><CODE>insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16</CODE></P></LI>
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604 <LI>To make it load/unload automatically when needed, first insert the
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605 following line at the end of <CODE>/etc/modules.conf</CODE>:
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606 <P><CODE>alias char-major-178 mga_vid</CODE></P>
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607 <P>Then copy the <CODE>mga_vid.o</CODE> module to the appropriate place
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608 under <CODE>/lib/modules/&lt;kernel version&gt;/somewhere</CODE>.</P>
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609 <P>Then run</P>
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610 <P><CODE>depmod -a</CODE></P></LI>
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611 <LI>Now you have to (re)compile MPlayer, <CODE>configure</CODE> will
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612 detect <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> and build the 'mga' driver. Using it from
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613 MPlayer goes by <CODE>-vo mga</CODE> if you have matroxfb console,
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614 or <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> under XFree86 3.x.x or 4.x.x.</LI>
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615 </OL>
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616
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617 <P>The mga_vid driver cooperates with Xv.</P>
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618
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619 <P>The <CODE>/dev/mga_vid</CODE> device file can be read (for example by
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620 <CODE>cat /dev/mga_vid</CODE>) for some info, and written for brightness
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621 change: <CODE>echo "brightness=120" &gt; /dev/mga_vid</CODE></P>
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622
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623
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624 <H4><A NAME="tdfxfb">2.3.1.8 3dfx YUV support (tdfxfb)</A></H4>
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626 <P>This driver uses the kernel's tdfx framebuffer driver to play movies with
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627 YUV acceleration. You'll need a kernel with tdfxfb support, and recompile
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628 with <CODE>./configure --enable-tdfxfb</CODE></P>
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630
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631 <H4><A NAME="opengl">2.3.1.9 OpenGL output</A></H4>
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632
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633 <P>MPlayer supports displaying movies using OpenGL, but if your
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634 platform/driver supports xv as should be the case on a PC with Linux, use xv
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635 instead, OpenGL performance is considerably worse. If you have an X11
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636 implementation without xv support, OpenGL is a viable alternative.</P>
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637
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638 <P>Unfortunately not all drivers support this feature. The Utah-GLX drivers
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639 (for XFree86 3.3.6) support it for all cards. See
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640 <A HREF="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net">http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net</A>
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641 for details about how to install it.</P>
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642
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643 <P>XFree86(DRI) 4.0.3 or later supports OpenGL with Matrox and Radeon cards,
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644 4.2.0 or later supports Rage128. See
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645 <A HREF="http://dri.sourceforge.net">http://dri.sourceforge.net</A>
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646 for download and installation instructions.</P>
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647
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648
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649 <H4><A NAME="aalib">2.3.1.10 AAlib - text mode displaying</A></H4>
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650
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651 <P><B>AAlib</B> is a library for displaying graphics in text mode, using powerful
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652 ASCII renderer. There are LOTS of programs already supporting it, like Doom,
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653 Quake, etc. MPlayer contains a very usable driver for it.
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654 If ./configure detects aalib installed, the aalib libvo driver will be
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655 built.</P>
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656
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657 <TABLE BORDER=0>
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658 <TR><TD COLSPAN=4><P><B>You can use some keys in the AA Window to change rendering options:</B></P></TD></TR>
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659 <TR><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD><CODE>1</CODE></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD>decrease contrast</TD></TR>
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660 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>2</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>increase contrast</TD></TR>
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661 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>3</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>decrease brightness</TD></TR>
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662 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>4</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>increase brightness</TD></TR>
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663 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>5</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>switch fast rendering on/off</TD></TR>
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664 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>6</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>set dithering mode (none, error distribution, Floyd Steinberg)</TD></TR>
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665 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>7</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>invert image</TD></TR>
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666 <TR><TD></TD><TD><CODE>a</CODE></TD><TD></TD><TD>toggles between aa and MPlayer control)</TD></TR>
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667 </TABLE>
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668
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669 <P><B>The following command line options can be used:</B></P>
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670 <DL>
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671 <DT><CODE>-aaosdcolor=V</CODE></DT>
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672 <DD>change OSD color</DD>
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673
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674 <DT><CODE>-aasubcolor=V</CODE></DT>
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675 <DD>change subtitle color
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676 <P><I>where V can be: (0/normal, 1/dark, 2/bold, 3/bold font, 4/reverse,
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677 5/special)</I></P></DD>
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678 </DL>
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679
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680 <P><B>AAlib itself provides a large sum of options.
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681 Here are some important:</B></P>
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682 <DL>
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683 <DT><CODE>-aadriver</CODE></DT>
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684 <DD>set recommended aa driver (X11, curses, Linux)</DD>
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685
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686 <DT><CODE>-aaextended</CODE></DT>
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687 <DD>use all 256 characters</DD>
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688
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689 <DT><CODE>-aaeight</CODE></DT>
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690 <DD>use eight bit ASCII</DD>
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691
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692 <DT><CODE>-aahelp</CODE></DT>
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693 <DD>prints out all aalib options</DD>
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694 </DL>
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695
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696 <P>NOTE: the rendering is very CPU intensive, especially when using AA-on-X
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697 (using aalib on X), and it's least CPU intensive on standard,
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698 non-framebuffer console. Use SVGATextMode to set up a big textmode,
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699 then enjoy! (secondary head Hercules cards rock :)) (anyone can enhance
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700 fbdev to do conversion/dithering to hgafb? Would be neat :)</P>
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701
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702 <P>Use the <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option if your computer isn't fast enough to
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703 render all frames!</P>
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705 <P>Playing on terminal you'll get better speed and quality using the Linux
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706 driver, not curses (<CODE>-aadriver linux</CODE>). But therefore you need write access on
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707 <CODE>/dev/vcsa&lt;terminal&gt;</CODE>. That isn't autodetected by aalib, but vo_aa tries
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708 to find the best mode. See
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709 <A HREF="http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/">http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/</A>
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710 for further tuning issues.</P>
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711
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712
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713 <H4><A NAME="vesa">2.3.1.11 VESA - output to VESA BIOS</A></H4>
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714
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715 <P>This driver was designed and introduced as a <B>generic driver</B> for any
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716 video card which has VESA VBE 2.0+ compatible BIOS. Another advantage of this
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717 driver is that it tries to force TV output on.<BR>
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718 <B>VESA BIOS EXTENSION (VBE) Version 3.0 Date: September 16, 1998</B> (Page
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719 70) says:</P>
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720
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721 <BLOCKQUOTE>
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722 <B>Dual-Controller Designs</B><BR>
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723 VBE 3.0 supports the dual-controller design by assuming that since both
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724 controllers are typically provided by the same OEM, under control of a
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725 single BIOS ROM on the same graphics card, it is possible to hide the fact
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726 that two controllers are indeed present from the application. This has the
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727 limitation of preventing simultaneous use of the independent controllers,
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728 but allows applications released before VBE 3.0 to operate normally. The
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729 VBE Function 00h (Return Controller Information) returns the combined
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730 information of both controllers, including the combined list of available
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731 modes. When the application selects a mode, the appropriate controller is
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732 activated. Each of the remaining VBE functions then operates on the active
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733 controller.
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734 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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735
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736 <P>So you have chances to get working TV-out by using this driver.<BR>
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737 (I guess that TV-out frequently is standalone head or standalone output
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738 at least.)</P>
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739
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740 <H4>Advantages:</H4>
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741
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742 <UL>
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743 <LI>You have the possibility to watch movies <B>even if Linux doesn't know</B>
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744 your video hardware.</LI>
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745 <LI>You don't need to have installed any graphics' related things on your Linux
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746 (like X11 (aka XFree86), fbdev and so on). This driver can be run from
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747 <B>text-mode</B>.</LI>
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748 <LI>You have chances to get <B>working TV-out</B>. (It's known at least for
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749 ATI's cards).</LI>
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750 <LI>This driver calls <B>int 10h</B> handler thus it's not an emulator - it
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751 calls <B>real</B> things of <B>real</B> BIOS in <B>real</B>-mode. (Finely -
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752 in vm86 mode).</LI>
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753 <LI>You can use Vidix with it, thus getting accelerated video display
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754 <B>AND</B> TV output at the same time! (recommended for ATI cards)</LI>
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755 <LI>If you have VESA VBE 3.0+, and you had specified <CODE>monitor_hfreq</CODE>,
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756 <CODE>monitor_vfreq</CODE>, <CODE>monitor_dotclock</CODE> somewhere (config
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757 file, or commandline) you will get the highest possible refresh rate. (Using
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758 General Timing Formula). To enable this feature you have to specify
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759 <B>all</B> your monitor options.</LI>
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760 </UL>
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761
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762 <H4>Disadvantages:</H4>
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764 <UL>
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765 <LI>It works only on <B>x86 systems</B>.</LI>
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766 <LI>It can be used only by <B>root</B>.</LI>
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767 <LI>Currently it's available only for <B>Linux</B>.</LI>
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768 </UL>
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769
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770 <P>Don't use this driver with <B>GCC 2.96</B>! It won't work!</P>
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771
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772 <P><B>Command line options available for VESA:</B></P>
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773 <DL>
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774 <DT><CODE>-vo vesa:opts</CODE></DT>
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775 <DD>currently recognized: <B>dga</B> to force dga mode and <B>nodga</B> to
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776 disable dga mode. In dga mode you can enable double buffering via the
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777 <CODE>-double</CODE> option. Note: you may omit these parameters to enable
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778 <B>autodetection</B> of dga mode.</DD>
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779 </DL>
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780
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781 <H4>Known problems and workaround:</H4>
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782
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783 <UL>
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784 <LI>If you have installed <B>NLS</B> font on your Linux box and run VESA
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785 driver from text-mode then after terminating MPlayer you will have
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786 <B>ROM font</B> loaded instead of national. You can load national font again
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787 by using <B><I>setsysfont</I></B> utility from the Mandrake distribution
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788 for example.<BR>
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789 (<B>Hint:</B> The same utility is used for the localization of fbdev).</LI>
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790 <LI>Some <B>Linux graphics drivers</B> don't update active <B>BIOS mode</B> in
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791 DOS memory. So if you have such problem - always use VESA driver only from
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792 <B>text-mode</B>. Otherwise text-mode (#03) will be activated anyway and
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793 you will need restart your computer.</LI>
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794 <LI>Often after terminating VESA driver you get <B>black screen</B>. To return
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795 your screen to original state - simply switch to other console (by pressing
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796 <B>Alt-Fx</B>) then switch to your previous console by the same way.</LI>
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797 <LI>To get <B>working TV-out</B> you need have plugged TV-connector in before
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798 booting your PC since video BIOS initializes itself only once during POST
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799 procedure.</LI>
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800 </UL>
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801
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802
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803 <H4><A NAME="x11">2.3.1.12 X11</A></H4>
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805 <P>Avoid if possible. Outputs to X11 (uses shared memory extension), with no
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806 hardware acceleration at all. Supports (MMX/3DNow/SSE accelerated, but still
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807 slow) software scaling, use the options <CODE>-fs -zoom</CODE>. Most cards
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808 have hardware scaling support, use the <CODE>-vo xv</CODE> output for them,
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809 or <CODE>-vo xmga</CODE> for Matroxes.</P>
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810
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811 <P>The problem is that most cards' driver doesn't support hardware acceleration
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812 on the second head/TV. In those cases, you see green/blue colored window
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813 instead of the movie. This is where this driver comes in handy, but you need
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814 powerful CPU to use software scaling. Don't use the SDL driver's software
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815 output+scaler, it has worse image quality!</P>
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816
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817 <P>Software scaling is very slow, you better try changing video modes instead.
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818 It's very simple. See the <A HREF="#dga_modelines">DGA section's modelines</A>,
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819 and insert them into your XF86Config.</P>
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820
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821 <UL>
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822 <LI>If you have XFree86 4.x.x - use the <CODE>-vm</CODE> option. It will
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823 change to a resolution your movie fits in. If it doesn't:</LI>
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824 <LI>With XFree86 3.x.x - you have to cycle through available resolutions
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825 with the <B>CTRL-ALT-plus</B> and <B>minus</B> keys.</LI>
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826 </UL>
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827
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828 <P>If you can't find the modes you inserted, browse XFree86's output. Some
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829 drivers can't use low pixelclocks that are needed for low resolution
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830 video modes.</P>
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831
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832
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833 <H4><A NAME="vidix">2.3.1.13 VIDIX</A></H4>
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834
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835 <P>VIDIX is the abbreviation for <B>VID</B>eo <B>I</B>nterface for
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836 *ni<B>X</B>.<BR>
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837 VIDIX was designed and introduced as an interface for fast user-space drivers
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838 providing such video performance as mga_vid does for Matrox cards. It's
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839 also very portable.</P>
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840
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841 <P>This interface was designed as an attempt to fit existing video acceleration
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842 interfaces (known as mga_vid, rage128_vid, radeon_vid, pm3_vid) into a fixed scheme. It
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843 provides highlevel interface to chips which are known as BES (BackEnd
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844 scalers) or OV (Video Overlays). It doesn't provide lowlevel interface to
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845 things which are known as graphics servers. (I don't want to compete with X11
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846 team in graphics mode switching). I.e. main goal of this interface is to
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847 maximize the speed of video playback.</P>
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848
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849 <H4>USAGE</H4>
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850
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851 <UL>
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852 <LI>You can use standalone video output driver: <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE><BR>
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853 This driver was developed as X11's front end to VIDIX technology. It
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854 requires X server and can work only under X server.</LI>
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855 <LI>You can use VIDIX subdevice which was applied to several video output
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856 drivers, such as:<BR>
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857 <CODE>-vo vesa:vidix</CODE> (<B>Linux only</B>) and <CODE>-vo fbdev:vidix</CODE></LI>
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858 </UL>
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859
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860 Indeed it doesn't matter which video output driver is used with <B>VIDIX</B>.
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861
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862 <H4>REQUIREMENTS</H4>
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863
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864 <UL>
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865 <LI>video card should be in graphics mode (I write <B>should</B> simply
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866 because I tested it in text mode - it works but has awful output ;) Use
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867 AAlib for that).<BR>
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868 <I>Note: Everyone can try this trick by commenting out mode switching in
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869 vo_vesa driver.</I></LI>
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870 <LI>MPlayer's video output driver should know active video mode and be
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871 able to tell to VIDIX subdevice some video characteristics of server.</LI>
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872 </UL>
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873
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874 I hope that probably every video output driver of MPlayer will
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875 recognize <CODE>:vidix</CODE> subdevice.
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876
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877 <H4>USAGE METHODS</H4>
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878
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879 <P>When VIDIX is used as <B>subdevice</B> (<CODE>-vo vesa:vidix</CODE>) then
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880 video mode configuration is performed by video output device
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881 (<B>vo_server</B> in short). Therefore you can pass into command line of
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882 MPlayer the same keys as for vo_server. In addition it understands
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883 <CODE>-double</CODE> key as globally visible parameter. (I recommend using
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884 this key with VIDIX at least for ATI's card).<BR>
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885 As for <CODE>-vo xvidix</CODE>: currently it recognizes the following
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886 options: <CODE>-fs -zoom -x -y -double</CODE>.</P>
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888 <P>Also you can specify VIDIX's driver directly as third subargument in command
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889 line:<BR>
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890 <BR>
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891 &nbsp;&nbsp;<code>mplayer -vo xvidix:mga_vid.so -fs -zoom -double
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892 file.avi</code><BR>
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893 or<BR>
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894 &nbsp;&nbsp;<code>mplayer -vo vesa:vidix:radeon_vid.so -fs -zoom -double -bpp
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895 32 file.avi</code><BR>
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896 <BR>
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897 But it's dangerous, and you shouldn't do that. In this case given driver will
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898 be forced and result is unpredictable (it may <B>freeze</B> your
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899 computer). You should do that ONLY if you are absolutely sure it will work,
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900 and MPlayer doesn't do it automatically. Please tell about it to the
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901 developers. The Right Way is to use VIDIX without arguments to enable driver
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902 autodetection.</P>
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903
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904 <P>VIDIX is very new technology and it's extremely possible that on your system
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bcaf75e384d8 Added (sigh, reHTMLized;)) Nick's VIDIX patch
gabucino
parents: 4177
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905 (OS=abc CPU=xyz) it won't work. In this case only solution for you it's port
bcaf75e384d8 Added (sigh, reHTMLized;)) Nick's VIDIX patch
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parents: 4177
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906 it (mainly libdha). But there is hope that it will work on those systems
6974
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907 where X11 does.</P>
4199
bcaf75e384d8 Added (sigh, reHTMLized;)) Nick's VIDIX patch
gabucino
parents: 4177
diff changeset
908
7015
72059027f953 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a
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parents: 6998
diff changeset
909 <BLOCKQUOTE>
72059027f953 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a
diego
parents: 6998
diff changeset
910 <B>Warning: security risk</B><BR>
72059027f953 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a
diego
parents: 6998
diff changeset
911 Unfortunately you <B>must</B> have <B>root</B> privileges to use VIDIX
72059027f953 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a
diego
parents: 6998
diff changeset
912 due to direct hardware access. At least the <B>SUID</B> bit on the
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
913 MPlayer executable must be set.
7015
72059027f953 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza nagyatad hu> in a
diego
parents: 6998
diff changeset
914 </BLOCKQUOTE>
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bcaf75e384d8 Added (sigh, reHTMLized;)) Nick's VIDIX patch
gabucino
parents: 4177
diff changeset
915
7047
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
parents: 7015
diff changeset
916 <H4>VIDEO EQUALIZER</H4>
4496
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
diff changeset
917
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
918 <P>This is a video equalizer implemented especially for VIDIX. You can use
6435
d0d74f9d8d4a Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
919 it either with <B>1-8</B> keys as described in the man page, or
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
920 by command line arguments. MPlayer recognizes the
6974
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921 following options:</P>
4496
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
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922
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
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diff changeset
923 <DL>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
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924 <DT><CODE>-brightness</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
925 <DD>Adjust <B>BRIGHTNESS</B> of video output. It's not equal to brightness
6974
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
926 adjusting on monitor panel or on TV. It changes intensity of RGB components of
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
927 video signal from black to white screen.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
928
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
929 <DT><CODE>-contrast</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
930 <DD>Adjust <B>CONTRAST</B> of video output. Works in similar manner as
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
931 brightness.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
932
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
933 <DT><CODE>-saturation</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
934 <DD>Adjust <B>SATURATION</B> of video output. You can get grayscale
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
935 output with this option.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
936
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
937 <DT><CODE>-hue</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
938 <DD>Adjust <B>HUE</B> of video signal. You can get colored negative
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
939 of image with this option.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
940
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
941 <DT><CODE>-red_intensity</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
942 <DD>Adjust intensity of <B>RED</B> component of video signal.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
943
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
944 <DT><CODE>-green_intensity</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
945 <DD>Adjust intensity of <B>GREEN</B> component of video signal.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
946
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
947 <DT><CODE>-blue_intensity</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
948 <DD>Adjust intensity of <B>BLUE</B> component of video signal.</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
parents: 7076
diff changeset
949 </DL>
6732
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
diego
parents: 6729
diff changeset
950
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951 <P>Each parameter can accept values from <B>-1000</B> to <B>+1000</B>.<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
952 Default value for each parameter is <B>0</B>.</P>
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
953
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
954 <P><B>Note:</B> Not every driver provides support for each of those parameters.
6599
f20184a10258 1001 typos as found by ispell.
diego
parents: 6583
diff changeset
955 Currently only <B>radeon_vid.so</B> provides full support for video equalizing.
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
956 Other drivers only partly support these options.</P>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
957
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bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
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958 <P><B>Examples:</B><BR>
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
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959 <CODE>mplayer -vo vesa:vidix -brightness -300 -contrast 200
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
diff changeset
960 filename.avi</CODE><BR>
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
diff changeset
961 or<BR>
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
diff changeset
962 <CODE>mplayer -vo xvidix -red_intensity -50 -saturation 400 -hue 300
6974
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parents: 6960
diff changeset
963 filename.vob</CODE></P>
4496
bf7ea03b1adf Vidix video equalizing (Nick's patch)
gabucino
parents: 4360
diff changeset
964
2956
f6b51da0a50d DOXized and applied Nick's radeon_vid patch. Nick, should I update
gabucino
parents: 2883
diff changeset
965
7367
5b0baab4c4fd Numbering corrected.
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parents: 7281
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966 <H4><A NAME="zr">2.3.1.14 Zr</A></H4>
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parents: 4223
diff changeset
967
4b231f3778a6 entudjam?
gabucino
parents: 4223
diff changeset
968 <P>This is a display-driver (<CODE>-vo zr</CODE>) for a number of MJPEG
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6906
diff changeset
969 capture/playback cards (tested for DC10+ and Buz, and it should work for the
7192
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
970 LML33 and the original DC10). The driver works by encoding the frame to jpeg
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
971 and then sending it to the card. For the jpeg encoding <B>libavcodec</B> is
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
972 used, and required. With the special <I>cinerama</I> mode, you can watch
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
973 movies in true wide screen provided that you have two beamers and two
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
974 MJPEG cards. Depending on resolution and quality settings, this driver
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
975 may require a lot of CPU power, remember to specify <CODE>-framedrop</CODE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
976 if your machine is too slow. Note: My AMD K6-2 350MHz is (with <CODE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
977 -framedrop</CODE>) quite adequate for watching VCD sized material and
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
978 downscaled movies.
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4b231f3778a6 entudjam?
gabucino
parents: 4223
diff changeset
979
4b231f3778a6 entudjam?
gabucino
parents: 4223
diff changeset
980 <P>This driver talks to the kernel driver available at
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
parents: 6906
diff changeset
981 <A HREF="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net">http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net</A>, so
7192
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
982 you must get it working first. The presence of an MJPEG card is autodetected
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
983 by the configure script, if autodetection fails, force detection with
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
984
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
985 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
986 ./configure --enable-zr
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
987 </PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
988
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
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989 <P>The output can be controlled by several options, a long description of the
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
990 options can be found in the man page, a short list of options can be
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
991 viewed by running
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
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diff changeset
992
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
993 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
994 mplayer -zrhelp
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
995 </PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
996
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
997 <P>Things like scaling and the OSD (on screen display) are not handled by
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
998 this driver but can be done using the video filters. For example,
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
999 suppose that you have a movie with a resolution of <CODE>512x272</CODE> and
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1000 you want to view it fullscreen on your DC10+. There are three main
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1001 possibilities, you may scale the movie to a width of <CODE>768</CODE>,
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1002 <CODE>384</CODE> or <CODE>192</CODE>. For performance and quality reasons,
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1003 I would choose to scale the movie to <CODE>384x204</CODE> using the fast
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1004 bilinear software scaler. The commandline is
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1005
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1006 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1007 mplayer -vo zr -sws 0 -vop scale=384:204 movie.avi
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1008 </PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1009
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1010 <P>Cropping can be done by the <CODE>crop</CODE> filter and by
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1011 this driver itself. Suppose that a movie is too wide for display on your
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1012 Buz and that you want to use <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> to make the movie less
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1013 wide, the you would issue the following command
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4b231f3778a6 entudjam?
gabucino
parents: 4223
diff changeset
1014
7192
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1015 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1016 mplayer -vo zr -zrcrop 720x320+80+0 benhur.avi
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1017 </PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1018
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1019 if you want to use the <CODE>crop</CODE> filter, you would do
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1020
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1021 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1022 mplayer -vo zr -vop crop=720:320:80:0 benhur.avi
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1023 </PRE>
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gabucino
parents: 4223
diff changeset
1024
7192
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1025 <P>Extra occurances of <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> invoke <I>cinerama</I> mode, i.e.
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1026 you can distribute the movie over several TV's or beamers to create a larger
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1027 screen. Suppose you have two beamers. The left one is connected to your Buz
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1028 at <CODE>/dev/video1</CODE> and the right one is connected to your DC10+ at
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1029 <CODE>/dev/video0</CODE>. The movie has a resolution of <CODE>704x288</CODE>.
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1030 Suppose also that you want the right beamer in black and white and that
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1031 the right beamer should have jpeg frames at quality <CODE>10</CODE>,
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1032 then you would issue the following command
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1033
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1034 <PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1035 mplayer -vo zr -zrdev /dev/video0 -zrcrop 352x288+352+0 -zrxdoff 0 -zrbw \
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1036 -zrcrop 352x288+0+0 -zrdev /dev/video1 -zrquality 10 movie.avi
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1037 </PRE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
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parents: 7138
diff changeset
1038
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1039 <P>You see that the options appearing before the second <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1040 only apply to the DC10+ and that the options after the second
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1041 <CODE>-zrcrop</CODE> apply to the Buz. The maximum number of MJPEG cards
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1042 participating in <I>cinerama</I> is four, so you can buid a <CODE>2x2</CODE>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1043 vidiwall.</P>
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1044
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1045 <P>Finally an important remark: Do not start or stop XawTV on the playback
f771e685f3b1 Zr documentation updated plus some typos fixed.
diego
parents: 7138
diff changeset
1046 device during playback, it will crash your computer. It is, however, fine to
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
1047 <B>FIRST</B> start XawTV, <B>THEN</B> start MPlayer, wait for
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
1048 MPlayer to finish and <B>THEN</B> stop XawTV.</P>
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gabucino
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1049
7367
5b0baab4c4fd Numbering corrected.
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1050
5b0baab4c4fd Numbering corrected.
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parents: 7281
diff changeset
1051 <H4><A NAME="dvb">2.3.1.15 DVB</A></H4>
6729
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
diego
parents: 6599
diff changeset
1052
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
1053 <P>MPlayer supports cards with the Siemens DVB chipset from vendors like
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1054 Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis or Hauppauge. The latest DVB drivers are
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1055 available from the <A HREF="http://www.linuxtv.org">Linux TV site</A>. If you
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1056 want to do software transcoding you should have at least a 1GHz CPU.</P>
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1057
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1058 <P>Configure should detect your DVB card. If it did not, force detection with
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1059
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1060 <PRE>
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1061 ./configure --enable-dvb
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1062 </PRE>
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1063
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1064 <P>If you have ost headers at a non-standard path, set the path with</P>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1065
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1066 <PRE>
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1067 ./configure --with-extraincdir=&lt;DVB source directory&gt;/ost/include
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1068 </PRE>
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1069
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1070 <P>Then compile and install as usual.</P>
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1071
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1072 <H4>USAGE</H4>
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1073
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1074 <P>Hardware decoding (playing standard MPEG1/2 files) can be done with this
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1075 command:</P>
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1076
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1077 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1078 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes file.mpg|vob
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1079 </PRE>
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1080
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1081 <P>Software decoding or transcoding different formats to MPEG1 can be achieved
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1082 using a command like this:</P>
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1083
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1084 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1085 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc yourfile.ext
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1086 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop fame,expand yourfile.ext
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1087 </PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1088
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1089 <P>Note that DVB cards only support heights 288 and 576 for PAL or 240 and 480
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1090 for NTSC. You <B>must</B> rescale for other heights by adding
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1091 <CODE>scale=width:height</CODE> with the width and height you want to the
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1092 <CODE>-vop</CODE> option. DVB cards accept various widths, like 720, 704,
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1093 640, 512, 480, 352 etc and do hardware scaling in horizontal direction, so
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1094 you do not need to scale horizontally in most cases. For a 512x384 (aspect
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1095 4:3) DivX try:</P>
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1096
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1097 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1098 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=512:576
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1099 </PRE>
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1100
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1101 <P>If you have a widescreen movie and you do not want to scale it to full height,
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1102 you can use the <CODE>expand=w:h</CODE> plugin to add black bands. To view a
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1103 640x384 DivX, try:</P>
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1104
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1105 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1106 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,expand=640:576 file.avi
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1107 </PRE>
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1108
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1109 <P>If your CPU is too slow for a full size 720x576 DivX, try downscaling:</P>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1110
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1111 <PRE>
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1112 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=352:576 file.avi
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1113 </PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1114
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1115 <P>If speed does not improve, try vertical downscaling, too:</P>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1116
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1117 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1118 mplayer -ao mpegpes -vo mpegpes -vop lavc,scale=352:288 file.avi
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1119 </PRE>
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1120
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1121 <P>For OSD and subtitles use the expand feature of the OSD plugin. So, instead
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1122 of <CODE>expand=w:h</CODE> or <CODE>expand=w:h:x:y</CODE>, use
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1123 <CODE>expand=w:h:x:y:1</CODE> (the 5th parameter <CODE>:1</CODE> at the end
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1124 will enable OSD rendering). You may want to move the image up a bit to get a
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1125 bigger black zone for subtitles. You may also want to move subtitles up, if
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3275af5787e0 Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, slightly
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1126 they are outside your TV screen, use the <CODE>-subpos &lt;0-100&gt;</CODE> switch
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1127 to adjust this (<CODE>-subpos 80</CODE> is a good choice).</P>
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1128
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1129 <P>In order to play non-25fps movies on a PAL TV or with a slow CPU, add the
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diff changeset
1130 <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option.</P>
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1131
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1132 <P>To keep the aspect ratio of DivX files and get the optimal scaling parameters
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diff changeset
1133 (hardware horizontal scaling and software vertical scaling while keeping the
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1134 right aspect ratio), use the new dvbscale plugin:</P>
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1135
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1136 <PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1137 for 3:4 TV: -vop lavc,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1138 for 16:9 TV: -vop lavc,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale=1024
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1139 </PRE>
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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diff changeset
1140
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1141 <H4>FUTURE</H4>
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diff changeset
1142
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diff changeset
1143 <P>If you have questions or want to hear feature announcements and take part in
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1144 discussions on this subject, join our
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1145 <A HREF="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb">MPlayer-DVB</A>
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1146 mailing list. Please remember that the list language is English.</P>
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1147
62b33bad8fca Added DVB to the HTML docs.
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1148 <P>In the future you may expect the ability to display OSD and subtitles using
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1149 the native OSD feature of DVB cards, as well as more fluent playback of
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diff changeset
1150 non-25fps movies and realtime transcoding between MPEG2 and MPEG4 (partial
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diff changeset
1151 decompression).</P>
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diff changeset
1152
4496
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diff changeset
1153
7367
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diff changeset
1154 <H4><A NAME="dxr3">2.3.1.16 DXR3/Hollywood+</A></H4>
6732
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
diego
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diff changeset
1155
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1156 <P>MPlayer supports hardware accelerated playback with the Creative DXR3
7270
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diff changeset
1157 and Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus cards. These cards both use the em8300 MPEG
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1158 decoder chip from Sigma Designs.</P>
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diego
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diff changeset
1159
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1160 <P>First of all you will need properly installed DXR3/H+ drivers, version
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diff changeset
1161 0.12.0 or later. You can find the drivers and installation instructions at
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1162 the <A HREF="http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/">DXR3 &amp; Hollywood Plus for
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diff changeset
1163 Linux</A> site. Configure should detect your card automatically, compilation
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
diego
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diff changeset
1164 should go without problems.</P>
6732
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
diego
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diff changeset
1165
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1166 <H4>Usage:</H4>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
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diff changeset
1167 <DL>
7951
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1168 <DT><CODE>-vo dxr3:prebuf:sync:&lt;device&gt;</CODE></DT>
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1169 <DD><CODE>prebuf</CODE> turns on prebuffering. Prebuffering is a feature
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1170 of the em8300 chip that enables it to hold more than one frame of video at
7951
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1171 a time. This means that when you are running with prebuffering
7814
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diff changeset
1172 MPlayer will try to keep the video buffer filled with data at all
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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diff changeset
1173 times. If you are on a slow machine MPlayer will probably use close
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1174 to, or precisely 100% of CPU. This is especially common if you play pure MPEG
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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diff changeset
1175 streams (like DVDs, SVCDs a.s.o.) since MPlayer will not have to
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1176 reencode it to MPEG it will fill the buffer very fast.<BR>
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1177 With prebuffering video playback is <B>much</B> less sensitive to other
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1178 programs hogging the CPU, it will not drop frames unless applications hog
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1179 the CPU for a long time.<BR>
7951
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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diff changeset
1180 When running without prebuffering the em8300 is much more sensitive to CPU
7969
9ec3f2b9a87f <B>MPlayer</B> --> MPlayer
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1181 load, so it is highly suggested that you turn on MPlayer's
7951
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1182 <CODE>-framedrop</CODE> option to avoid further loss of sync.<BR>
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1183 <CODE>sync</CODE> will turn on the new sync-engine. This is currently an
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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diff changeset
1184 experimental feature. With the sync feature turned on the em8300's internal
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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diff changeset
1185 clock will be monitored at all times, if it starts to deviate from MPlayer's
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
mswitch
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diff changeset
1186 clock it will be reset causing the em8300 to drop any frames that are lagging
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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diff changeset
1187 behind.<BR>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
1188 <CODE>&lt;device&gt;</CODE> = device number to use if you have more than one
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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diff changeset
1189 em8300 card.
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
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1190 <BR>
7951
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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1191 Any of these options may be left out.</DD>
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1192
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1193 <DT><CODE>-ao oss:/dev/em8300_ma-X</CODE></DT>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
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1194 <DD>For audio output, where <CODE>X</CODE> is the device number
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
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1195 (0 if one card).</DD>
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
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1196
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1197 <DT><CODE>-aop list=resample:fout=xxxxx</CODE></DT>
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1198 <DD>The em8300 cannot play back samplerates lower than 44100Hz. If the sample
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1199 rate is below 44100Hz select either 44100Hz or 48000Hz depending on which
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1200 one matches closest. I.e. if the movie uses 22050Hz use 44100Hz as
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1201 44100 / 2 = 22050, if it is 24000Hz use 48000Hz as 48000 / 2 = 24000 and so
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1202 on. This does not work with digital audio output (<CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE>).</DD>
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1203
7270
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1204 <DT><CODE>-vop lavc/fame</CODE></DT>
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1205 <DD>To watch non-MPEG content on the em8300 (i.e. DivX or RealVideo) you have
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1206 to specify an MPEG1 video filter such as libavcodec (lavc) or libfame
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1207 (fame). At the moment lavc is both faster and gives better image quality, it
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1208 is suggested that you use that unless you have problems with it. See the man
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1209 page for further info about <CODE>-vop lavc/fame</CODE>.<BR>
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1210 Using lavc is highly recommended. Currently there is no way of setting the
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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1211 fps of the em8300 which means that it is fixed to 29.97fps. Because of this
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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1212 it is highly recommended that you use <CODE>-vop lavc=&lt;quality&gt;:29.97</CODE>,
32ae0a9d06aa Updated the DXR3 section to reflect command changes, prebuf replaced
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1213 especially if you are using prebuffering.</DD>
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60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1214
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1215 <DT><CODE>-ac hwac3</CODE></DT>
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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diff changeset
1216 <DD>The em8300 supports playing back AC3 audio (surround sound) through the
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427935644581 updates, fixes
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1217 digital audio output of the card. See the <CODE>-ao oss</CODE> option
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1218 above, it must be used to specify the DXR3's output instead of
427935644581 updates, fixes
gabucino
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1219 a soundcard. Also read <A HREF="codecs.html#hardware_ac3">hardware AC3</A>
427935644581 updates, fixes
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1220 section for further information on AC3.</DD>
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1221 </DL>
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1222
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1223 <H4>Overlay</H4>
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1224
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
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1225 <P>To get overlay run dxr3view that comes with the em8300 package before
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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1226 starting MPlayer. You can set various options in dxr3view by pressing
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1227 <CODE>T</CODE> while holding the mouse cursor above the window.</P>
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8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
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1228
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1229 <H4>MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD and DVD Notes</H4>
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8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
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1230
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1231 <P>MPEG1/2 content should now automatically be detected by MPlayer and
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1232 it will use the hardware acceleration of the DXR3 to play it. If not, you can
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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1233 force it to hardware acceleration with <CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>. Also, if you
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
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1234 plan to use postprocessing filters you must use <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE>.</P>
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8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
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1235
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1236 <P>In some instances, subtitles may not appear properly in sync with the A/V
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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1237 stream when using hardware decoding (<CODE>-vc mpegpes</CODE>). This is a
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
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1238 known bug. The em8300 will also improperly handle subtitles that are too big,
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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1239 and may hang for a second or two. At this time, the only workaround is to use
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
diego
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diff changeset
1240 <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE> when viewing DVDs with subtitles. When running with
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
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diff changeset
1241 <CODE>-vc mpeg12</CODE> MPlayer will reencode video to MPEG (even if it
7270
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
diego
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diff changeset
1242 already is MPEG). This means that it will need more CPU power, and you might
60a3b83b73bf DXR3 docs updated. Patch by David Holm <david@realityrift.com>, further
diego
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1243 loose some picture quality.</P>
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1244
8460a77203de DXR3 moved to video.html. TOC updated, added <CODE> where appropiate.
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1245
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1246 <H4><A NAME="tv-out">2.3.1.A TV-out support</A></H4>
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1247
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1248
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1249 <H5><A NAME="tv-out_matrox">2.3.1.A.1 Matrox G400 cards</A></H5>
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1250
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1251 <P>Under Linux you have 2 methods to get G400 TV out working:</P>
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20bf56a828d1 "nememlex" --Gabucino, 2002
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1252
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1253 <P><B>IMPORTANT:</B> for Matrox G450/G550 TV-out instructions, please see the
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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1254 next section!</P>
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1255
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1256 <UL>
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1257 <LI><B>XFree86</B>: using the driver and the HAL module, available from
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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1258 <A HREF="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox's site</A>. This will give you X on
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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1259 the TV.<BR> <B>This method doesn't give you accelerated playback</B> as
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1260 under Windoze! The second head has only YUV framebuffer, the <I>BES</I>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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diff changeset
1261 (Back End Scaler, the YUV scaler on G200/G400/G450/G550 cards) doesn't work
7061
33624384dd7b Typos, cosmetics and a tag closed.
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1262 on it! The Windows driver somehow works around this, probably by using the
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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1263 3D engine to zoom, and the YUV framebuffer to display the zoomed
2848
33c32f3d9f1f many small updates, fixes (some/more to be completed soon)
gabucino
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1264 image. If you really want to use X, use the <CODE>-vo x11 -fs -zoom</CODE>
6599
f20184a10258 1001 typos as found by ispell.
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1265 options, but it will be <B>SLOW</B>, and has <B>Macrovision</B> copy protection
4177
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
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1266 enabled (you can "workaround" Macrovision using
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
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diff changeset
1267 <A HREF="http://avifile.sourceforge.net/mgamacro.pl">this</A> perl
cab4ac1467e4 many small updates
gabucino
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diff changeset
1268 script.</LI>
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d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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1269 <LI><B>Framebuffer</B>: using the <B>matroxfb modules</B> in the 2.4 kernels.
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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1270 2.2 kernels don't have the TVout feature in them, thus unusable for this.
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1dbc569b6528 more fix/update
gabucino
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diff changeset
1271 You have to enable ALL matroxfb-specific feature during compilation (except
5713
634fbb5dd181 I2C is also needed for G400 tvout
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diff changeset
1272 MultiHead), and compile them into <B>modules</B>! You'll also need I2C
634fbb5dd181 I2C is also needed for G400 tvout
gabucino
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1273 enabled.
7099
0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
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diff changeset
1274 <OL>
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
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1275 <LI>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1276 Enter <CODE>TVout/matroxset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1277 <CODE>matroxset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1278 <LI>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1279 If you don't have <CODE>fbset</CODE> installed, enter
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1280 <CODE>TVout/fbset</CODE> and type <CODE>make</CODE>. Install
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1281 <CODE>fbset</CODE> into somewhere in your PATH.</LI>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1282 <LI>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
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diff changeset
1283 Then enter into the <CODE>TVout/</CODE> directory in the MPlayer
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1284 source, and execute <CODE>./modules</CODE> as root. Your text-mode console
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1285 will enter into framebuffer mode (no way back!).</LI>
7454
a8ae3f53eb14 matroxtv script was modified
gabucino
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1286 <LI>Next, EDIT and run the <CODE>./matroxtv</CODE> script. This will present you
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1287 to a very simple menu. Press <B>2</B> and <B>ENTER</B>. Now you should
7454
a8ae3f53eb14 matroxtv script was modified
gabucino
parents: 7377
diff changeset
1288 have the same picture on your monitor, and TV. If
a8ae3f53eb14 matroxtv script was modified
gabucino
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diff changeset
1289 the TV (PAL by default) picture has some weird stripes on it, the script wasn't able to
a8ae3f53eb14 matroxtv script was modified
gabucino
parents: 7377
diff changeset
1290 set the resolution correctly (to 640x512 by default). Try other
a8ae3f53eb14 matroxtv script was modified
gabucino
parents: 7377
diff changeset
1291 resolutions from the menu and/or experiment with fbset.</LI>
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0b70f3dc34eb Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>, with some
diego
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diff changeset
1292 </OL>
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1293
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916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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1294 <P>Yoh. Next task is to make the cursor on tty1 (or whatever) to disappear,
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1295 and turn off screen blanking. Execute the following commands:</P>
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1296
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916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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1297 <P><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25l'</CODE> or <CODE>setterm -cursor off<BR>
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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diff changeset
1298 setterm -blank 0</CODE></P>
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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diff changeset
1299
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916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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diff changeset
1300 <P>You possibly want to put the above into a script, and also clear
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
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1301 the screen.. To turn the cursor back:<BR><CODE>echo -e '\033[?25h'</CODE>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
parents: 6960
diff changeset
1302 or <CODE>setterm -cursor on</CODE></P>
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
parents: 2472
diff changeset
1303
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1304 <P>Yeah kewl. Start movie playing with <CODE>mplayer -vo mga -fs -screenw 640
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
gabucino
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diff changeset
1305 -screenh 512 &lt;filename&gt;</CODE><BR>
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1306 (if you use X, now change to matroxfb with for example CTRL-ALT-F1!)<BR>
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
parents: 6981
diff changeset
1307 Change 640x512 if you set the resolution to other.<BR>
6974
916f62dd0910 Another big batch of cosmetics *only*.
diego
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diff changeset
1308 <B>Enjoy the ultra-fast ultra-featured Matrox TV output (better than Xv)!</B></P>
2486
d4f398ef37aa rewritten matrox tvout section
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diff changeset
1309 </LI>
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1310 </UL>
2309
3128b9d8b4ea New section: Matrox TVout - method 2
gabucino
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diff changeset
1311
3128b9d8b4ea New section: Matrox TVout - method 2
gabucino
parents: 2206
diff changeset
1312
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2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1313 <H5><A NAME="tv-out_matrox_g450">2.3.1.A.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards</A></H5>
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1314
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1315 <P>TV output support for these cards has only been recently introduced, and is
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1316 not yet in the mainstream kernel. Currently the <B>mga_vid</B> module
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1317 can't be used AFAIK, because the G450/G550 driver works only in one
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1318 configuration: the first CRTC chip (with much more features) on the first
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1319 display (on monitor), and the second CRTC (no <B>BES</B> - for explanation
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1320 on BES, please see the G400 section above) on TV. So you can only use
7969
9ec3f2b9a87f <B>MPlayer</B> --> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7951
diff changeset
1321 MPlayer's <I>fbdev</I> output driver at the present.</P>
7377
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
parents: 7367
diff changeset
1322
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1323 <P>The first CRTC can't be routed to the second head currently.
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
parents: 7367
diff changeset
1324 The author of the kernel matroxfb driver - Petr Vandrovec - will maybe make
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1325 support for this, by displaying the first CRTC's output onto both of the
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1326 heads at once, as currently recommended for G400, see the section above.</P>
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
gabucino
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diff changeset
1327
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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diff changeset
1328 <P>The necessary kernel patch and the detailed howto is downloadable from
7937
33e4345d6dd6 URLs corrected.
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diff changeset
1329 <A HREF="http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/">http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout/</A></P>
7377
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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diff changeset
1330
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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diff changeset
1331
2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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diff changeset
1332 <H5><A NAME="tv-out_ati">2.3.1.A.3 ATI cards</A></H5>
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0e8e8fed492e ATI TVout stuff added (from Nick Kurshev)
gabucino
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diff changeset
1333
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diego
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diff changeset
1334 <H5>PREAMBLE</H5>
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diff changeset
1335
4f87cd0f642f Converted the docs to use proper headings tags.
diego
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diff changeset
1336 <P>Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux,
6960
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diff changeset
1337 because of their licensed Macrovision technology.</P>
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4b7d097a9c69 big update
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1338
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diego
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diff changeset
1339 <H5>ATI CARDS TV-OUT STATUS ON LINUX</H5>
2206
0e8e8fed492e ATI TVout stuff added (from Nick Kurshev)
gabucino
parents: 2131
diff changeset
1340
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diego
parents: 6393
diff changeset
1341 <UL>
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parents: 6906
diff changeset
1342 <LI><B>ATI Mach64</B>: supported by
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
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diff changeset
1343 <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.</LI>
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gabucino
parents: 6906
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1344 <LI><B>ASIC Radeon VIVO</B>: supported by
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
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diff changeset
1345 <A HREF="http://gatos.sf.net">gatos</A>.</LI>
7814
988498df1996 <B>MPlayer</B> ---> MPlayer
diego
parents: 7793
diff changeset
1346 <LI><B>Radeon</B> and <B>Rage128</B>: supported by MPlayer!
6998
83a386e88f9e Applied patch by Andras Mohari <mayday at varoshaza . nagyatad . hu>
diego
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diff changeset
1347 Check <a href="#vesa">VESA driver</a> and <A HREF="#vidix">VIDIX</A>
6960
87deea511b1f continuing paragraph reformatting
gabucino
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diff changeset
1348 sections.</LI>
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d0d74f9d8d4a Background now set by CSS, added doctype and charset.
diego
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diff changeset
1349 </UL>
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1351 <P>On other cards, just use the <a href="#vesa">VESA driver</a>, without
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1352 VIDIX. Powerful CPU is needed, though.</P>
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1353
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4b7d097a9c69 big update
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1354 <P>Only thing you need to do - <B>have TV connector plugged in before
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1355 booting your PC</B> since video BIOS initializes itself only once during
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1356 POST procedure.</P>
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1357
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487f5bbb38ae link to tomi ollila's voodoo3 tvout text. if he has interest to integrate
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1358
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2c13297f0b80 G450/G550 TV-out
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1359 <H5><A NAME="tv-out_voodoo">2.3.1.A.4 Voodoo 3</A></H5>
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1360
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1361 <P>Check <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/too/tvout-voodoo3-3000-xfree">this URL</A>.</P>
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1363 </BODY>
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1364 </HTML>